TOKYO, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Japanese authorities repeated their warnings about the yen’s precipitous fall against the dollar on Wednesday, with Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki saying he was “meticulously” checking currency rates with more frequency, local media reported. Speaking to reporters at the finance ministry, Suzuki said the government would “properly respond” in the foreign...
SEOUL:South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup met with the commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command in Seoul on Friday to discuss North Korea’s provocations and the Seoul-Washington alliance, Lee’s office said. Lee and Adm. John Aquilino shared the view that the allies have “strongly” responded to North Korea over Pyongyang’s latest ballistic missile tests, according...
WASHINGTON:US announced new economic sanctions on North Korea after launched a series of ballistic missiles he called “unprecedented in their pace, scale and scope.” In a statement,US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said this year alone, North Korea has launched 41 ballistic missiles, six of them intercontinental ballistic missiles. North Korea has conducted six ballistic...
SEOUL/TOKYO, Oct 4 (Reuters) – Nuclear-armed North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile further than ever before on Tuesday, sending it soaring over Japan, for the first time in five years, and prompting a warning for residents there to take cover. It was the first North Korean missile to follow such a trajectory since 2017, and...
LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – Kenyan Amos Kipruto won his first London Marathon title on Sunday and Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw stormed to victory in the women’s race ahead of last year’s winner Joyciline Jepkosgei. Kipruto made a move with five kilometres left and finished in two hours four minutes and 39 seconds to take his...
SYDNEY/LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) – The dollar on Tuesday took a pause in what has been a relentless climb higher as the euro and even the besieged Japanese yen and British pound managed to recover a little ground, but medium-term fundamentals were still in the greenback’s favour. The euro rose 0.42% to $0.9647, sterling climbed...
Author Dr.Beruniy Alimov According to Firdavs Abdukhalikov, the director general of the film festival, a program full of exciting events awaits us, among the main ones: “days of the cinema of the SCO countries”, “days of world cinema”, “days of documentary cinema”, “days of Retrokino”, “cinema day of Uzbekistan”, film forum of the international organization...
TAIPEI, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Taiwan proposed $19 billion in defence spending for next year on Thursday, a double-digit increase on 2022 that includes funds for new fighter jets, weeks after China staged large-scale war games around the island it views as its sovereign territory. China carried out its largest-ever military exercises around the democratically...
SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) – South Korea and the United States began their largest joint military drills in years on Monday with a resumption of field training, officials said, as the allies seek to tighten readiness over North Korea’s potential weapons tests. The annual summertime exercises, renamed Ulchi Freedom Shield this year and scheduled to...
Aug 8 (Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe’s largest atomic plant at the weekend. “Any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing,” Guterres told a news conference...